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Processes in chemical evolution must have involved several catalysts multifunctional in nature. Our previous work has demonstrated that metal ferrocyanides posses strong adsorption affinity towards amino acids and nucleotides. It is assumed that during the course of chemical evolution, cyanide could have formed some metal ferrocyanides. As these metal ferrocyanides are mostly insoluble in water, and they are therefore, considered to have settled at the bottom of the primeval ocean or at sea shore. We propose that metal cyanogen complexes might have acted as an important prebiotic catalyst.
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Kamaluddin (2001). Studies on Metal Ferrocyanides as Prebiotic Catalyst. In: Chela-Flores, J., Owen, T., Raulin, F. (eds) First Steps in the Origin of Life in the Universe. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1017-7_18
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